Finspång Municipality
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in Östergötland County
Östergötland County
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Sweden
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. Its seat is located in the town of Finspång
Finspång
Finspång is a locality and the seat of Finspång Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 12,415 inhabitants in 2005.-Overview:Finspång is a traditional industrial town. The first industries were established in 1580 when a Royal factory for cannon and cannon balls was chartered. The industry...
, with some 13,000 inhabitants.
Nature
The municipality refers to itself as Sweden's most lake-dense municipality, with at least 170 named lakes. The municipality boasts that one can swim in a different lake each day of the year as there are 366 different ones.History
Finspång is a traditional industrial city. The first industries were established in 1580 when a Royal factory for cannonCannon
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and cannon ball
Round shot
Round shot is a solid projectile without explosive charge, fired from a cannon. As the name implies, round shot is spherical; its diameter is slightly less than the bore of the gun it is fired from.Round shot was made in early times from dressed stone, but by the 17th century, from iron...
s was supervised. The industry was to continue for 300 years under supervision of the Dutch-stemming family De Geer
De Geer
De Geer is a family of Walloon origin which became notable in Sweden and the Netherlands...
. By Louis Gerhard De Geer
Louis Gerhard De Geer
Baron Louis Gerhard De Geer of Finspång was a Swedish statesman and writer.De Geer was born at Finspång manor. He was a lawyer, and in 1855 became president of the Göta Hovrätt, or lord justice for the appellate court of Götaland. From 7 April 1858 to 3 June 1870 he was Prime Minister of Justice...
(1622-1695), the Finspång Castle was constructed, and around it industries and an orangery
Orangery
An orangery was a building in the grounds of fashionable residences from the 17th to the 19th centuries and given a classicising architectural form. The orangery was similar to a greenhouse or conservatory...
developed into the city Finspång. Today the two main industrial areas are those of turbines and copper processing.
Localities
- FinspångFinspångFinspång is a locality and the seat of Finspång Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 12,415 inhabitants in 2005.-Overview:Finspång is a traditional industrial town. The first industries were established in 1580 when a Royal factory for cannon and cannon balls was chartered. The industry...
(seat) - RejmyreRejmyreRejmyre is a locality situated in Finspång Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 899 inhabitants in 2005....
- LotorpLotorpLotorp is a locality situated in Finspång Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 715 inhabitants in 2005....
- SonstorpSonstorpSonstorp is a locality situated in Finspång Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 471 inhabitants in 2005....
- FallaFallaFalla is a locality situated in Finspång Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 463 inhabitants in 2005....
- HällestadHällestadHällestad is a locality situated in Finspång Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 357 inhabitants in 2005....
- LjusfallshammarLjusfallshammarLjusfallshammar is a locality situated in Finspång Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 318 inhabitants in 2005....
- GrytgölGrytgölGrytgöl is a locality situated in Finspång Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 301 inhabitants in 2005....
- IgelforsIgelforsIgelfors is a locality situated in Finspång Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 231 inhabitants in 2005....
- BorggårdBorggårdBorggård is a locality situated in Finspång Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 252 inhabitants in 2005....
- ButbroButbroButbro is a locality situated in Finspång Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 215 inhabitants in 2005....
- Hävla
- Bränntorp
- Byle
- Kolstad
- Lämmetorp
- Lövlund
- Prästköp
Twin towns
Finspång Municipality has formal twin townTown twinning
Twin towns and sister cities are two of many terms used to describe the cooperative agreements between towns, cities, and even counties in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.- Terminology :...
treaties with three cities. These treaties were signed in 1967.
Stromberg
Stromberg
-People:*Lyndon Stromberg, American sculptor and designer*Karl Stromberg, the villain in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me*Joseph R. Stromberg, historian with the Ludwig von Mises Institute*Glenn Strömberg, Swedish soccer player...
, Germany
Germany
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Yvoir
Yvoir
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, Belgium
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Givet
Givet
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, France
France
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There are today no contacts with neither Stromberg or Givet, and was also broken with Yvoir until reestablished in 1997.
Finspång also has (informally) established cooperation with seven other cities:
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, Germany
(Source and more information: http://www.finspong.se/vanorter/ )
Notable people born in Finspång
- Pär ArvidssonPär ArvidssonPär Arvidsson was a butterfly swimmer from Sweden. He won the 100 m butterfly at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, after having set the world record in the same event a couple of months earlier in Austin, Texas...
(*1960) - butterfly swimmer - Bengt BaronBengt BaronBengt Baron is a former backstroke swimmer from Sweden. He won the 100 m backstroke at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and was a member of the bronze winning team from Sweden in the 4×100 m freestyle at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. An undergraduate student from the...
(*1962) - Backstroke swimmer - Kerstin EkmanKerstin EkmanKerstin Lillemor Ekman is a Swedish novelist.Kerstin Ekman wrote a string of successful detective novels but later went on to psychological and social themes...
(*1933) - author - Liselotte NeumannLiselotte NeumannLiselotte Maria "Lotta" Neumann is a Swedish professional golfer. She currently plays primarily on the LPGA Tour.-Amateur career:...
(*1966) - professional golfer - Dan SwanöDan SwanöDan-Erland Swanö is a Swedish musician who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale as well as the Owner of Unisound but he achieved fame as the vocalist and songwriter of progressive death metal band Edge of Sanity.As a multi-instrumentalist he is...
(*1973) - musician and music producer
External links
- Finspång Municipality - Official site